INDOCHINA - GLASS PLATES - Lot 24

INDOCHINA - GLASS PLATES Set of photographic plates of a French official in Annam, ca.1915. Photographs. Approximately 126 negative glass plates, some captioned on the boxes. Annamite lunch, farmyard, men in front of military subsistence office, Moï opium smoker, banana villa, coolies, Cao Bang harbor, Tà Lùng : town, cannon fire, woman with fan and parasol, group of Moïs, settlers with cigarette holders, woman on pony, village, Annamite couple and child, group of children, Westerner on rickshaw, smokehouse, woman reading, Ha-Dong captain, Nam Nung post, Dong Khê, Chinese dwelling, Thiba fille d'Annam. 12.8 x 17.7 cm Annam-themed and miscellaneous books are enclosed: - "Annamite games and superstitions", notebook including press clippings. -Official's personal notebook with handwritten notes: distances between Tonkin towns, rules of interest, poker, songs. -Extraits de poèmes antiques Bruant", handwritten notebook. -Almanach du marin et de la France maritime", 1894. -Annamite lessons, handwritten notebook with translation exercises. -Vade-mecum administratif de MM.Les Capitaines-Commandants", Lavauzelle, Paris. -Dictionnaire annamite-français, Tan Dinh, Imprimerie de la Mission, 1877. -La solde, les revues, l "administration et la comptabilité des corps de troupes de la marine", Lavauzelle, Paris, 1896. -Recueil de petits textes à l'usage des Annamites étudiant la langue française et des Français voulant apprendre l'annamite, Hanoi, 1898. -Manuscript notebook of geographical studies of the colonies.